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This Chapter provides an introduction to, and overview of, the contribution of economy-wide and global Computable General Equilibrium Models (CGEMs) to the understanding of natural resource and enviro
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This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking in
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During the Costello era, Australian Budgets under-estimated tax receipts for the upcoming fiscal year on 11 out of 12 occasions. The Swan–Hockey era saw over-estimates of tax receipts for eight fiscal
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Although a nautical metaphor, it is much beloved by economists of a certain persuasion to argue that an overall lift in economic prosperity benefits everyone. John F. Kennedy used it often to justify
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Objective: To monitor the cost and affordability of a nutritious diet and to assess the influence of distance from the capital city and socioeconomic status on the cost of nutritious food in Victoria.
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to extend the methodology proposed in Majumder et al. (2012) for the estimation of the item-specific purchasing power parities (PPPs) within countries, to the cr
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Using a New Keynesian DSGE model with labour market frictions, we compare outcomes for backward-looking animal spirits expectations with rational expectations after technology and demand shocks. For o
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We estimate small open economy models with involuntary unemployment using Australian data from 1993 to 2013, assessing whether nominal or real wage rigidity and hiring costs matter. Nominal wage rigid
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China’s War against the Many Faces of Poverty measures multidimensional poverty in China and deprivation related to income, education, health issues, living standards and social security. The book ado
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The relation between city size and wage inequality is well established for Western countries. This paper finds that city size-wage premium exists across Chinese cities to a lower extent than the Weste
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